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7 i(nniil(8nft MOM lie Sun-Herald mwv vm-hck: zyjysAvsWzw CHAOS AT Ho 96 Cbaos on the set of Number 96 this week when Suzanne Church collapsed and was rushed off to hospital. Suzanne, who plays Jane Chester in the Channel 10 series, has been plagued by recurrent bouts of tonsi-litis. Apparently doctors are waiting for the inflammation to subside before surgery. Suzanne will return to 96 in the meantime, the show is frantically being rewritten around her. Ml The songs you've heard about tinsel-town Hollywood are all true, according to Paul Hogan.

Paul Hogan and "Strop" (John Cornell) in Hollywood with Hugh Hefner, who wears 'Strop's" lifesaver's cap with appropriate jauntiness. DIFFERENT ED OF COP John Waters jumps from one arm of the law to another tomorrow when he starts work on a new movie for television. They're all either making cameo appearances or singing in the special, called Paul Hogan Pays Back Glenn Campbell. And if you saw the special Glenn did here with Olivia Newton-John then you just might have an inkling of what we're in for next Wednesday night. Paul's not giving too much away, apart from admitting he "attempted to enlighten the Americans" and, in turn, enlighten us about their "strange eating and mating habits." He also said quite a lot that's unprintable here, but we can give you some 'Oges comments on the stsrs Telly Savalasi "He's all right.

Lives the part of Kojak off-camera. We 'did' him in New York and within two minutes he'd stopped traffic and gathered a crowd of 600 people. Don't think the President could stop crowds as he does." Hugh Hefner: "Liked him. We went to a party in his five million dollar mansion one of those intimate little affairs for 300 people and he was the perfect host. We've got footage of that, too.

Strop's always wanted to meet him he's his idol. Hef gave him a few tips, and from that time the poor little chap was beat-inc off the birds with a stick." Rod Stewart: "We went to his house in Los Angeles. Not a bad little shack. Worth about one million dollars. They really know how to live over there.

Met Britt, too not a bad bird." Getting serious for a minute, Paul confided he had sold a couple of comedy sketches he'd written to a production company over there and he'll be making a short visit next year with more material. "I'm thrilled about it really," he said, "but it's just an ego trip. "Writing wouldn't earn me a fortune; the money's in performing. Besides, I think of myself as a comic first and a writer second." Despite his 1 modesty, it's a pretty big thing for Paul Hogan to crack the American writing market. He doesn't know who'll be doing his but the production company works only with "name" stars on television specials.

Any chance of us losing him to the States? "No way," he said, horrified. "I wouldn't want to live there, even though the money's good. "It was great to get back here and see blue skies. With the smog over there you never see a sunrise; they even give eye and throat irritation reports on the morning news! "The other thing I didn't like about the States and remember we went to LA, San Francisco, Las Vagas was the implied violence. "Sure, the police are armed," he said, "but you'lL even find armed guards at any supermarket with more man three check-outs.

chap? Channel 10 plans to screen the movie towards the end of this year, possibly about the same time as their other tele- movie, called Chopper Squad starring Dennis Grosvenor. This has now spun off into a series of 13 one-hour episodes. Dale Plummer on TV, Radio where we wanted to and no questions asked. "The secret is to get an important look on your face and rush in with the cameras. "Never ask permission; that could be fatal." The Hogan team, again suitably dressed, also met everyone they wanted to.

There were Telly Sav-alas, Rod Stewart, Britt Ekland, Hugh Hefner, the Bellamy Brothers, the Captain and Tenille, Darren McGavin and Richard Anderson (from The Six Million Dollar Man). "We got that lot on the show to make a bit of a change," he explained. "After all, you don't want your own boofhead stuck up there on the screen for the entire show." "I didn't like the place," said our top Ocker after a five-week visit to the United States. "Everyone you meet is about to crack it for stardom," he added, "Supermarket checkout girls, bus-drivers you name it, they're all getting around with biographies under their arms waiting to be discovered." But, Paul pointed out, you have to expect that in Hollywood. "After all, that's where they all gravitate if they want to make the big time," he said.

If Paul wasn't impressed with the Hollywood crowd, then what did they think of him? "They didn't know what the hell 1 was," he laughed. "Explain you come from Australia and they don't even know where it is. "Some thought it was in the direction of Asia, but that's as close as they came." Paul was visiting the States for an hour-long special to be seen on Channel 7 next Wednesday at 7.30 pm. Accompanying him were John "Strop" Cornell, lifesaver's cap and all, and Delvene Delaney and Andrew Harwood. Of course, Paul was dressed to impress in his sawn-off shorts and sleeveless shirt, and so met all the top people and went to the best places.

"No worries, mate," he said. "We went every- permanent the nine shift. staff, doing to midnight In an effort to improve its image as a professional racing station, and possibly overtake 3UZ, the acknowledged leaders in the field, Sydney's 2KY has now added an hourly "must for punters" on Saturdays. Called Turf Time, and heard between 9 and 10 am, the program will be co-compered by Ian Craig and Max Presnell. Along with the change in music style to more Eop, this is another effort -y the back-runner in the ratings race to get a placing nearer the lead of the field.

JOHN WATERS LIVE YOUNG TALENT Johnny Young and his Young Talent Time team will do tonight's show live from Channel 10's Sydney studios for the first time in their fiye-year history. Since budget cuts at the ABC decreed the end of Rush, John's had to give up his role as the colonial Sergeant McKellar. Now he's taken on the lead role in The Haunting of Hughie Dowker, made by Roger Mirams for the 0-10 Network, which could go into a series. Hughie Dowker, played by Waters, is a very modern Sydney policeman but don't let that fool you into thinking this is just another cop story. Would you believe Hughie thinks he is possessed by an evil spirit? That he has ESP? That he is known as a renegade cop and a strange BRONTES HI FOUR PARTS The ABC's palatable Sunday night literary diet continues with The Brontes of Haworth, starting tonight at 9.30.

This is a four-part serialisation of Christopher Fry's biography of the three Bronte girls, Anne, Emily and Charlotte, and their tragic brother Branwell, made by Yorkshire Television. Brought up in a lonely parsonage on the Yorkshire moors, the four children developed an imaginary kingdom of their own and this fostered their literary talent. Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights are classics today, so it should be interesting to see the televised background of these famous works. Bringing up baby No doubt fired by the success This Day Tonight had with the Le Boyer method of childbirth, ABC Radio 2 will present another radical look at the way we treat our children next Wednesday night. of the security men would also be stand- ing around with batons, knives and two-way radios." features Melbourne straight after the show, ready to start school to morrow.

Your regular "MiSf DENNIS GROSVENOR terns of bringing up children. These "natural" ways combined maximum personal, contact with" maximum infant freedom. The result, she says, is that tantrums and crying were practically unknown and the children attained independence strikingly early. Although The Noble Savage is a repeat, it's one of those controversial talking points well worth another listen. Holger Brockman, ex 2JJ, is now on 872GB's Turn over for a page of information TV and radio programs, Crossword, Your Stars.

On other pages: From today YTT will always be seen at 6.30 pm on Sunday, replacing The Waltons and Almost Anything Goes. Both come back next year with new episodes. Channel 10 is going all out to make an impression with Sydney viewers today their way of launching the Young Talent Time team property. During the afternoon they're pulling a trick when they cross without warning to the YTT studio to catch the team rehearsing. "They won't know they're on air," a station spokesman said, "so we'll be catching them unaware.

"We thought our viewers might like to aee how -the show; is put together." It'll be quite a day for the youngsters. They all fly back to Do we really spoil them if we pick them up every time they cry? ian Liedloff, ex-model, journalist and explorer, thinks we are too harsh with babies who, she says, "have become a sort of enemy to be vanquished by the mother." In the two and a half years she lived with the Stone Age Indians in the South American jungle, Savage, and asks are modern methods of. bringing up babies wrong? The program, In the pm, is called The Noble Investigations series, at 8 Jean Liedloff saw com- Jletely different and, to er, most impressive sys- Ski-ing P91 Vincent Serventy's Nature World P92 Around Your Home PP93-102 Stan Peck's Gardening PI 03 Lyn Barrow's Problem Clinic P104 Doctor Who Tells P104 Good Living P105 G. KoshnitokyV Chess 106 Bridge PI 06 Books PP108-109 Film Reviews P110. Sounds Set Pill Pop News P112 Evan Green on: i Motoring PP113-118 Finance PP119-121 Leslie Watford's Our Town 12 Women's Section FP123-135 89 THE SUN-HERALD, AUGUST 15, 1976 89.